Herman Rosse
| Hermann Rosse | |
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| Born |
1 January 1887 The Hague, Netherlands |
| Died | 13 April 1965 (aged 78) Nyack, New York |
| Occupation | Art director, Architect and Painter |
| Years active | 1930-1933 |
Hermann Rosse (1 January 1887 – 13 April 1965) was a Dutch-born American architect, painter, theatrical designer, and art director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film the King of Jazz.
He was born in The Hague, Netherlands and died in Nyack, New York. Herman was the second child of Carel Rosse (8 March 1857 at Kassevitz - ?) and Jacoba, Susanna de Haan. The elder sister of Herman, Bertha, Suzanna (SUZE) Rosse (The Hague, 1 September 1884 - 17 April 1968) became a well known Dutch painter.
Hermann Rosse studied at the Academy of Art in The Hague and trained in architecture and design at the Delft Polytechnic School and the South Kensington College of Art in London. From 1908 to 1910 he attended Stanford University in California, earned his B.A. in architecture, and designed several residences. He spent much of the summer in 1909 at the nearby art colony of Carmel-by-the-Sea and contributed his paintings to the Third Annual Exhibition of the Carmel Arts & Crafts Club. From 1911 to 1913 he produced most of the decorative interior designs – including paintings, stained glass, tiles, and marquetry – for the Peace Palace at The Hague; and while working there he met his future wife, Sophia Helena Luyt (1891–1982), a landscape architect who was responsible for the design of the formal gardens. After their marriage in London on June 14, 1913, they moved to Palo Alto, California, where Rosse was commissioned to design decorations for the Netherlands pavilion at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. He received a medal of honor for this commission. In 1914 he became an exhibiting member of the exclusive San Francisco Sketch Club. The many exhibitions of his watercolors, murals, and theatrical models at private and public art galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Association and Oakland Art Gallery, consistently received glowing reviews. Beginning in the spring of 1917 he was appointed the Instructor of Decorative Design at the California School of Fine Arts, today’s San Francisco Art Institute. Rosse designed sets for the Forest Theatre in Carmel, Art Theatre of Palo Alto, and The Playhouse in Santa Barbara.
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